Resource Furniture – Italian Designed Space Saving Furniture

[Ron Barth] Source: LYBIO.net
The Resource Furniture is actually many things. One of the things that we specialize in is the space-saving furniture, which is a remarkable line of products that’s made in Italy. Resource Furniture is the United States importer and distributor for North America for CLEI in Italy. In the premise of whatever video you see or pictures of these systems, everybody who comes in the showroom, finds that these systems completely exceed their expectations, because they work not only as well as they hope, but they work better than anybody ever anticipates.

They are a revolution in the complete design of space-saving furniture of wall beds, Murphy beds, there is really nothing like them. The depth of the systems is almost half of what a traditional or a conventional Murphy bed is.

All you have to do is move your chair, and you have a 5½-foot desk. The bed releases with the finger tip, and there is a stop built in, so that the bed doesn’t fall on you, now you have to actively pull it down, but everything remains on the desk. The desk remains parallel to the floor, the balance is perfect, everything operates very easily.

[Ron Barth] Source: LYBIO.net
This is a terrific sofa, it comes with a Shades Lounge or it comes just as a Loveseat, whatever you wish. And you can put your headrest back, and then you can just tuck your shades away, if you want just a straight sofa. To access the bed, you just move your two pillows here, three pillows, and underneath the sofa, you have storage, and you just pull on this handle, whatever is on the shelf, remains on the shelf, your stack of books, whatever decorative objects; up to 40 pounds.

You pull on the shelf, and then the shelf – down becomes the foot again, and there is your bed, the complete queen size bed. The mattress is sprung, it has a system of steam-bent beechwood slats embedded in nylon and polypropylene fittings inside this aluminum frame, so, that there – you have a box spring that’s completely silent, get springs and elevates the mattress so that it can aerate. This weighs about 450 pounds, and you can lift this really with just few fingers, it’s just perfectly balanced, and then you put the bed up, and way it goes.

I’ve people who come to me; they are moving into 200 square foot studios, and can’t imagine, how they could live in them until they see our products. Real estate brokers send their clients or their perspective clients here to see these systems so that they can understand that they can actually live and habit comfortably a smaller space than they anticipated. Two-bedroom apartment where that second bedroom seems too small, now, suddenly you can put two kids in that bedroom, and you can buy an apartment that you can afford.

This is a full seven-foot desk, two, even three people could sit at this desk, if you had it in a child’s room and you had two kids in a room, there would be enough room for two children to do the homework, and a mom or dad could sit in between them and help them. The desk, everything stays on the desk, it just lifts up, all right, it’s on the hydraulic mechanism, and then down comes your bed, everything works with the fingertips. And complete ease of operation and a total- and a sensible use of space.

[Ron Barth] Source: LYBIO.net
While you just slip your hand in here, you have your lower bunk, you have a folding headboard, here you have a memory foam of mattress, which sits on a completely sprung base, all the systems have sprung bases built into a tubular steel frame, steel legs, here you have the upper bunk.

Again, another folding headboard, you have a fully integrated ladder, piston actuated, and there it goes, and you just seat it here, you have a rail and upper storage. The entire bunk bed happens in 12¼ inches of depth, it’s really remarkable, and it takes seconds to open and close, and takes up virtually again 12¼ inches of depth. It’s 85 inches wide, 7 feet 1 inches and 86 and 5 inches tall. It will fit virtually anywhere.

And all of these systems have at least two different functions, and it isn’t just a cabinet that’s 24 inches deep with the bed; this a cabinet that’s 12¼ inches deep, and you can add a desk to it, you add the sofa.

You have this whole second purpose of, what you’re doing, you are saving so much space in your apartments, it’s like getting an extra room.

[Ron Barth] Source: LYBIO.net
The design process, you know it’s actually kind of a fascinating thing, because it involves you know, a furniture designer, a mechanical engineer, and a hardware company, where you know a theory is put forth by a designer in a drawing and a mechanical engineer, you know analyzes it and the [dis-tresses] and such and hardware required, designs are done for the hardware, and then hardware company goes through the process of analyzing the cost and prototyping it, and resolving whether the thing could be built at all.

[Ron Barth] Source: LYBIO.net
From what I’ve seen, at least a year or two from design and prototyping to bring out a new product, sometimes even two years, there is a lot involved in every single product. They are made to look extremely simple, and they are very, very easy to operate, but there is incredible depth of experience, knowledge, design, and engineering, you know in every one of these systems, and they are executed in such a way so that simplicity in construction and engineering it manifests itself, and you result in a lifetime warranty on the product, and the most discrete and refined wall beds ever made.